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SGA election recap: Robinson takes trustee

The Student Government Association senate elections took place April 14 and 15. Below is a recap of the results. In the only contested race, Amanda Robinson was elected student trustee decisively, garnering 61 percent of the 1,175 total votes over opponent MacKenzie Mahoney. Robinson, the former president of the student government,earned 718 votes to Mahoney’s

2015 SGA debate live feed

Follow this post for all the latest news and updates from the 2015 Student Government Association and student trustee debate. The debate is set to begin today at 4:30 p.m. EDT. 4:34 p.m.: Dr. Francis Talty introduces the candidates and opens the debate. 4:36 p.m.: President and vice president candidates James Christopher and Jesse Kruszka

The future of Downtown Lowell

(Photo/Christopher Tran/Connector) David Rudderham Connector Editor  Downtown Lowell has changed. The streets are no longer one way, lines are freshly painted and new developments continue. But has it changed much?  Most of the businesses downtown are still bars and restaurants. Some people embrace that fact and think the government should adapt to the current clientele.

Reading and book signing: Andre Dubus III and Sandra Lim

Samuel Linstead-Atkinson Connector Staff The English department hosted a poetry and fiction reading as well as a book signing, featuring faculty writers Sandra Lim and Andre Dubus III. Lim read poems from her collection “The Wilderness” and Dubus read from his book of novellas, “Dirty Love.” The event was dubbed “Writers on Campus” and students

Pradeep Kurup named Distinguished University Professor

Michael Caizzi Connector Staff The old saying “Good things come to those who wait” is a lie. Good things come to those who go out and earn them, and by all accounts, Professor Pradeep Kurup of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has earned them. Professor Kurup recently received the honor of being made Distinguished

SGA update: parking, printers, books and fountains

Tyler Cote Connector Staff Senators of their respected colleges met at University Crossing, as they do every week, to discuss matters on campus. With deliberation and formal discussion by everyone involved, some important topics were brought to the table. A hot issue this year has been the bookstore and its overwhelming prices that tower over

Author event: ‘Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid’

Co-authors and sisters, Gina Gallagher and Patricia Terrasi, addressed an audience at the O’Leary Library, describing their motivation behind their book, “Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid.” The book details their similar struggles in raising unique children with disabilities. They had had normal lives, Gallagher explained, until they started to see the signs. And they